"We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth."

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Elizabeth Kim

#Falling In Love Quotes #Tree Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“Thereâ€™s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: â€˜The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.â€™”
“I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.”
“I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.”
“All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.”
“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.”
“Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.”
“Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.”

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